Yoga postures are a series of physical poses that stretch, strengthen, and nurture the body.
Several thousand years ago, yoga was created by ancient sages in India as a system of training the mind to awaken to one’s true self.
- Yoga practice included many components, such as scholastic study, devotional chants, action for the betterment of all living things, and a variety of techniques based upon sitting in silence, such as controlled breathing and withdrawal of the senses. What these yogis found, though, was that there was a need to train the body to be capable of sustained periods of sitting.
- Practice posture for the sake of opening your body and facilitating a greater sense of balance and ease in your everyday life.
The benefit of posture into its simplest form – we can say that it opens the body.
- The more open the body, the more focused the mind.
Stiffness in the body is the evidence of poor circulation of energy, and stagnant energy leads to disease.
- In yoga posture, however, every part of the body is opened, and this stretching process stimulates blood flow, which in turn circulates oxygen.
Practice each posture only one time per sequence. Feel the stretch in the correct area. Mind the breath during the transitions between postures.
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The breath is as key to a good posture practice as it is to staying alive.
- The breath needs to be constant and never held.
- Breathe in and out of your nose to retain energy and focus.
Our intentions are more important than the length of time we practice.
You are the best judge of whether your posture practice should be more active in response to a slower-paced lifestyle, more relaxing in response to an always-on-the-go lifestyle, or a combination of more than one factor.
The practice of posture is not the end goal of the path of yoga, and it is not supposed to be as difficult as it often appears in the Western yoga industry.
Posture is a wonderful tool for stripping away inessential aspects of your life.
craving and resource from “The Guru in You” by Yogi Cameron Alborzian
